Green Bible Creates Controversy
Green Bible Creates ControversyBy Ginger D. Richardson
In this day and age, you can buy a Bible aimed at almost any demographic imaginable. There are Bibles for everyone from toddlers to teenage girls to recovering addicts. There are even Bibles on disc, narrated by James Earl Jones and Johnny Cash.
But it's the recently published Green Bible that is causing a stir in the religious community.
Supporters of the book, which highlights verses related to what believers call "God's creation" and his desire for humans to protect it, say they hope it will encourage more Christians, particularly evangelicals, to embrace environmentalism.
"In every book of the Bible, there are references to the world and how we should take care of it," said Rusty Pritchard, editor of Creation Care Magazine, an eco-friendly publication for evangelicals. "When you look at it through that lens, it really jumps out at you . . . that God is calling us to care for the world around us."
But others fear the new Bible, which has been endorsed by secular groups such as the Sierra Club and the Humane Society, will mislead Christians.
"I am concerned that many who call themselves Christians, or intend to speak for Christianity, don't interpret the Bible literally," said James Taylor, a founding elder and Sunday-school teacher at Living Water Christian Fellowship in Palmetto, Fla. "These groups don't have a religious focus; they have a desire to spread their environmental message."
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2 Thessalonians 2 describes this world AND the various apostasies rampant...just another heresy.
They want us to worship anything else but G*D!
tmw
Yes, they'd never use the Bible unless it was for a negative purpose.
I think the word "Bible" should be used for only one book. Today with muslims swarming around everything, it is important to keep the Bible sacred.
Yes, pushing an agenda other than the stated one--some PC nonsense--is NOT anything for which the Book was intended.
But not unexpected. We were warned in many places in the Bible, and by the facts of history...ALL man made institutions fall.
Including stupid, agenda driven attempts to subvert the Word of G*D...they just make themselves look like fools in the process!
tmw
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